Airplane toy



Nov. 23, 1943. J,. H. HAIFLEY 2,334,760

AIRPLANE TOY Filed July 24', 1943 .INVENTOR. JEROME h. HA/FLEY BY W M flTTOEA EY Patented Nov. 23, 194 3 his i ve i bni e i'e wisejormed, from inexpensi be hel'd'idtl'ie' or in a suitable support so as to utilize air movements to effect rotation of the propeller of the toy, all to the end of simulating an aircraft in flight to provide the toy with play-value and hence hold the interest of small children.

Another object of the invention is to provide an airplane toy of the abovedescribed character whose body or fuselage is formed from a paper blank bent and folded into its final shape for co-action with vertical and horizontal finsin providing a tail assembly, and for locking coaction with a propeller supporting nose piece and a stick'handle in maintaining the associated parts assembled.

With these and other objects in view, "the invention resides in' the combinations and arrangements of elements asset forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the in side J, i e r e irp an t r Wh se rts blanked a ther H hom-essential ma terialssuch as paper or wood, andcan-be, easily, assembled to fo-rm the completed toy adapted to Figure 5 is a perspective view of the nose piece; 7

Figure 6 is a plan view of the blank from which the body of the toy is formed;

Figure '7 is a plan view of the vertical tail fin; Figure 8 is a plan View of the horizontal tail fin. Referring specifically to the drawing, the invention in its illustrated embodiment comprises a body or fuselage IEI constructed of relatively heavy paper, light, flexible cardboard, or similar inexpensive sheet material, from a symmetrical blank B shown in Figure 6. The area and contour of the blank B is such as to form the sides H of the body Ii) when the blank is bent along the longitudinal medial line l2 into the substantially inverted U shape in cross section shown in par sfiw q prefle abl salgthouei n t near s a ir. semblsd 19m: kii r q rel. hee mgle e Q :a$:h nd. re br hey-o enection betweeen the wing and body.

The depending forward portion 19 or" the sides H simulate a landing gear, and can, if desired,

be reinforced by a. spacer 20 of sheet material having notched end flaps 2| insertable through I 29 therein.

The spacing of the openings 26 in the attaching portions 25 is such that when the latter are applied on the sleeve, the openings'will register with each other, so that when registered with the'socket 29, a stick handle 30 can be inserted through the openings and forced into the socket to rigidly support the body 10 from the handle as well'as co-act with the nose piece 23 and attaching portions 25 in locking the latter .in sleeve-forming position. A suitable propeller 3| constructed of paper or other suitable material, l i is rotatably mounted in advance of the nose piece 28 co-axially thereof by a common pin 32 or equivalent shaft which is driven into the nose piece. v

-The bending of the blank B along the medial line 12 to form the sides H increases in acuteness towards its rear end so that at the latter the sides are flat and in parallelism with only sufiicient space between them for insertion of the depending attaching flap 35 of a vertical fin 36 through a slit 31 in the body (Figure 6). A horizontal fin 38 is provided with a slot 39 through Which notchedflaps 40 on the sides Ii are insertable to secure the sides together. As shown in'Figure 4, the flap 35 of the vertical fin 36 can be of such length as tov also extend through the slot 33 to provide fora more rigid construction se en-s r al es of the tail assembly,

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although this is not From the foregoing description it willbe manifest that the invention provides an airplane toy of extremely inexpensive construction whose bodyis formed from a blank constructed to coact with the propeller mounting nose piece 28 and with the handle 30 to rigidly secure these a three parts together, and to co-a'ct with the vertical and horizontal fins'of the tailassembly in maintaining the desiredform of the body an'cli rigidly securing the fins thereto, all toithe end of dispensing with extraneous fastening means for such purposes.

I claim:

V r I 15 '1. An airplane toy comprising: a nose piece having a socket; a body of sheet material of gen- I erally inverted U-shaped crosssection providing 7 sides and a closed top; said body having attach-1 ing portions at its forward end provided with openings and wrapped in opposite directions about said nose piece 'inoverlapping relation to form a sleeve, with said openings registering'with each" other and with said socket; a handle extending through said openingsinto said socketto rigidly support the body from the handle and secure the aforestated'parts together; a wing supported on the body; the; rear portion of said body having a longitudinal slit along the stop 2,334,760 I Y ,..j Q51 thereof, and attaching flaps depending from its sides; a vertical fin projecting through said slit;

and a horizontal fin having a slit receiving said flaps to secure the horizontal flnto the body and the vertical fin against displacement from between the sides of the body.

2.-An airplane toy comprising: a nose'piece having a socket; a body of sheet material of generally inverted U-shapedcross section providing sides and a closed top; said body having attaching p'ortions at: its forward end provided with openings and wrapped in opposite directions about said nose piece in overlapping relation to form a sleeve, with said openings registering with each other and with said socket; a handle ex- I V tending through said openings into said socket torigidly support the body from the handle and secure' the aforestated parts together; a wing supported on the body; the rear portion of said body having a longitudinal slitv along the top thereof, and-attaching flaps depending from its sides; a verticalfi n' having a-porti'on projecting through said slitj 'anda-horizontal'fin having'a slit receiving said flaps to secure the horizontal fin to the bodyr -withthe sides of the latter in frictional engagement with said portion of the vertical fin] tof 'secure the latter against displacement.

- 'J-EROME H. HAIFLEY; 

